The Big Chill: Domestic Insecurities and Sino-Japanese Relations
China and Japan sparred once again, this time at the United Nations. Last week, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs...
A nation must think before it acts.
Year: 2015
Russia returns as al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s ‘Far Enemy’
The Soviet defeat and subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 left victorious Arab mujahideen adrift. Many retired from their...
Is Turkey’s Military Reentering Politics?
Hulusi Akar, the recently selected chief of Turkey’s military, confronts a very tense, if not perilous environment. His August appointment...
Putin’s Hidden Victims
It has been nearly three years since Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning American families from adopting...
U.S. Foreign Policy Aspirations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Economic Integration and Political Alignment?
At times, it seemed as though the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would go on interminably. Begun in...
Azerbaijan Closes Its Doors: This Time To Amnesty International
FPRI scholars and contributors have frequently used the case of Azerbaijan to support the argument that in today’s world...
The Eurasian Economic Union’s growth is not good for democracy in the region
In August 2015, Kyrgyzstan officially became a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), joining Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan...
The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force
The enactment of Japan’s new national security bills was a long time in the making. The bills, already passed...
The Islamic State Online: Countering the Symptom Rather Than The Disease May Only Make Them Stronger
The 2016 Presidential campaigns have swung into full gear and tough talk about countering the Islamic State grows by...
Can the Islamic State hijack September 11 from Zawahiri’s al Qaeda?
September 9, 2015 The increasingly reclusive Aymen al-Zawahiri sprung up his ugly head this week with a new lecture...